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I am of the Jewish Religion which I am very proud of. My Aunt Bea is the one that I am very proud of; she was a person who showed much courage when at the age of nine. She was born in Germany three years before the reign of Adolph Hitler. This was in the days when Jews were in the Nazis concentration camps, by such cruel ways as cremating, by throwing them into ovens, gas chambers and tearing off their skin. When she was at the nine it was her turn and her family’s turn to go to the Nazi Camp, she was the only child. Quite unbelievably, she escaped to America. Some friends wrote her that her beloved parents had be persecuted. Now at the age of thirty-two she lives in the town of O’Neill, Nebraska She and my Uncle Bob have four girls and are the only Jewish people in the town of O’Neill, Nebraska. The population is three thousand.
In recent years she has been traveling around Nebraska talking to women’s clubs in small towns telling about the Jewish religion and her experience. Sometimes she has a very small turnout which I am very sorry about. Many people dislike the Jews because
they don’t know anything about them. She is really a wonderful person and a great aunt which I can and I am proud of.